Weekly Spotlight

On Friday, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to reauthorize the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), including Section 702.

April 13, 2024

Over the past few years, we’ve been raising the alarm about the dangers of a second coming of Schedule F, a Trump Administration-era executive order that would have removed job protections for tens of thousands of merit-based federal employees if President Joe Biden hadn’t rescinded it.

April 06, 2024

Under a new directive from the Office of Management and Budget, the Census Bureau is going to implement new answers to the question about race and ethnicity.

March 30, 2024

The saga of trouble at the Social Security Administration’s chief watchdog continues: Inspector General Gail Ennis and her office are back in the news after the release of a preliminary investigation that raised concerns about the office’s past failures.

March 23, 2024

This week, POGO commemorated Sunshine Week by shedding light on the shameful lack of transparency around deaths in law enforcement custody — a crisis that no one, not even the government, knows the full scope of.

March 16, 2024